Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Marriage

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

10.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

11.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

12.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

13.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

14.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

15.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

18.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

19.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

20.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

21.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

25.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

26.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

27.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

33.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

38.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

40.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

41.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

42.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

43.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

48.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

49.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas